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Show YOUNG MAN LANDS IN JAIL OBTAINS RIG BY MEANS OF FORGED FORG-ED LETTER. Passes Spurious Check at Meat Market Attempts to Dupe Saloonkeepers Saloon-keepers and Others. Leslie Fuller, whoHe wife is alleged to be a former resident of Farr West, camo Into the city yesterday with his wife and went to "the Red Front livery stable to get a rig for a buggy ride. He presented a letter bearing the signature sig-nature of Judge J. A. Howell, recommending recom-mending the young man to the good graces of the Ubery Btable proprietors. Upon this recommendation the lis was tendered the man on credit and he and his wile rode uway. They Journeyed toward Five Points and it is alleged that at various saloons sa-loons along the route Fuller undertook to cash checks In payment for refreshments. refresh-ments. In each Instance the ealoon man turned him down, but when ho arrived at the Montgomery meat market mar-ket and presented a check for $. It was cashed, and, after deducting the price of tho meat the man bought, tho balance bal-ance of the check was paid In cash. It soon developed that both tho letter let-ter bearing the signature of the Judgo of the second Judicial court and tho check given the moat market man were forgeries. The sheriff's office was advised of the affair and Deputy Sheriff Hutchens arrested the fellow on the charge of forgery. Fuller ls now in the county Jail and Ws wife has returned home a sadder and wiser girl. It Is stated that Fuller Is a benedict bene-dict of only a few months. |